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(1)Every local education authority shall, with the approval of the Secretary of State and after consultation with governing bodies of aided schools and of special agreement schools, make arrangements for the consideration and disposal of any complaint made on or after 1st September 1989 which is to the effect that the authority, or the governing body of any county or voluntary school maintained by the authority or of any special school so maintained which is not established in a hospital—
(a)have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably with respect to the exercise of any power conferred or the performance of any duty imposed on them by or under—
(i)any provision of this Chapter; or
(ii)any other enactment relating to the curriculum for, or religious worship in, maintained schools other than grant-maintained schools; or
(b)have failed to discharge any such duty.
(2)The Secretary of State shall not entertain under section 68 or 99 of the 1944 Act any complaint falling within subsection (1) above, unless a complaint concerning the same matter has been made and disposed of in accordance with arrangements made under that subsection.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 1-25 (Pt. I) except ss. 2(1)(a), 6, 9(3)-(10), 10(1) applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084, reg.9.
C2S. 23(1) modified by S.I. 1989/46, art. 3(2)
C3S. 23(1) restricted by S.I. 1989/46, art. 3(4)
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